Europe in the Central Middle Ages, 962-1154

, by Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence

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ISBN: 9780582493919 | 0582493919
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/1987

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"This is the first" new edition" of this wide-ranging introduction since 1987! This best-seller explores the emergence of the distinctive character of medieval Europe during this period. Christopher Brooke examines the reform and revival of the Papacy, the heyday of the medieval Empire, the rise of the Normans, the early Crusades, explores the role of women in the period and this new edition devotes more attention to central Europe - Bohemia, Hungary and Poland. Will be of tremendous interest to anyone interested in the medieval history. ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER: 0-582-36905-3.

List of genealogical charts	p. ix
List of maps	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The millennium	p. 1
Some paradoxes	p. 4
962 to 1154	p. 11
Sources	p. 13
Chronicle and history	p. 14
Liudprand to Lampert	p. 14
Orderic to John of Salisbury	p. 20
Byzantine historians	p. 25
Exceptional narratives	p. 26
Biography	p. 27
Letters	p. 30
Other literary sources	p. 31
Documents	p. 32
Forgery	p. 34
Vernacular literature	p. 36
Architecture, art and archaeology	p. 37
Coins	p. 38
Other materials	p. 39
The shape of Europe	p. 41
Islam	p. 41
Muslim Spain	p. 43
The Byzantine Empire	p. 46
The Viking world	p. 50
Russia	p. 54
Central Europe	p. 56
Internal physical boundaries	p. 62
Political frontiers	p. 64
The languages of Europe	p. 67
Economic life	p. 72
The economics of building	p. 73
Currency	p. 79
The slave trade	p. 82
Trade in general	p. 83
Technological advance	p. 85
Agriculture and colonisation	p. 86
The conditions of economic progress	p. 90
Society	p. 91
Population	p. 91
Barons and knights	p. 96
Freedom, serfdom and slavery	p. 108
Merchants and artisans	p. 112
The clergy	p. 116
The role of women	p. 121
Queens and empresses	p. 124
Women religious	p. 130
Marriage	p. 142
Georges Duby and the two models	p. 142
Law and practice in the early Middle Ages	p. 144
The Church takes control	p. 145
Annulment and consanguinity	p. 147
Jack Goody and Peter Damian	p. 147
What is marriage?
Gratian and Alexander III	p. 149
The Church and the aristocracy	p. 151
The history of marriage	p. 154
Cities and towns	p. 155
England, Tuscany and Umbria: a contrast	p. 155
The Italian city republics	p. 156
Rome	p. 160
Venice, Verona, Milan	p. 162
Bologna, Genoa, Pisa	p. 165
Todi, San Gimignano	p. 166
Spain
Cordoba	p. 168
Northern cities	p. 169
London	p. 170
Northern communes
Laon, Bruges	p. 172
Travel	p. 174
Prologue: John of Salisbury	p. 174
Monastic stability and movement	p. 175
Pilgrimages to Conques, Vezelay, Compostela	p. 177
Rome and Jerusalem: the Crusades	p. 178
The popular view of the crusades	p. 182
Merchants, boats and trade	p. 187
The wandering scholars	p. 190
Kingship and government	p. 192
Kingship	p. 192
War and marriage	p. 194
Weapons and recruitment	p. 196
Law and administration	p. 200
Divine right: anointing and coronation	p. 207
Charlemagne and the imperial idea	p. 210
King-making	p. 215
The Empire, 962-1056	p. 222
The Ottos	p. 223
From Henry II to Henry III	p. 234
From the Salians to the Hohenstaufen	p. 242
Henry IV	p. 242
Henry V	p. 249
The rise of the Hohenstaufen	p. 251
The kingdom of the French	p. 255
The resources of the monarchy	p. 255
Aquitaine and Burgundy	p. 258
The principalities of northern France	p. 259
The Capetian kings	p. 261
Britain and the Vikings, 959-1035	p. 269
The Normans	p. 275
The Normans and their myth	p. 275
The Normans in Normandy	p. 277
The Normans in England	p. 278
The Norman settlement and Domesday Book	p. 280
The Normans and Britain	p. 282
William II, Henry I and Stephen	p. 284
In Italy and Sicily	p. 289
The crusades, Byzantium and Spain	p. 294
The Byzantine Empire: the reign of Alexius I	p. 294
The First Crusade	p. 297
Byzantium and the Latin kingdoms	p. 303
The Second Crusade	p. 305
Christianity and Islam in the Spanish peninsula	p. 307
Monasticism and papal reform	p. 312
Cluny, Gorze and Glastonbury	p. 312
The origins of the papal reform	p. 322
The papal conflicts	p. 340
Gregory VII and Henry IV: the issues	p. 340
1073-77: The road to Canossa	p. 345
1077-1106	p. 352
The investiture issue in England and France	p. 355
Pope and Emperor 1106-22	p. 356
The papacy, 1122-53	p. 360
The new monastic orders	p. 363
The reformation of the twelfth century	p. 368
The Cistercians	p. 371
Schools and scholarship	p. 378
The schools	p. 378
Grammar, rhetoric and dialectic	p. 380
Theology: St Anselm	p. 385
Theology and humanism: Abelard	p. 387
Canon law	p. 391
Gratian	p. 393
Popular religion	p. 397
Outcasts and persecution	p. 397
Religion, art and architecture	p. 402
Heresies	p. 412
Life in the world: the layman's religion	p. 415
Epilogue	p. 419
Chronological lists	p. 420
Bibliography	p. 425
Genealogical charts	p. 437
Maps	p. 443
Index	p. 451
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